Trump Blocked by FL Judge as $400 Million Scheme gets Smoked Out

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2:01Michael Popok:Donald Trump stealing$400 million from a college university in Miami for his presidential library is so terrible and so criminal that 59 % of a primarily Republican county is against it, including MAGA. That's how bad it is. You need to steal money from Miami-Dade College, the parking lot that they want to turn over under some sort of compelled, forced request by Ron DeSantis, the governor. That parking lot sits across from water on Biscayne Boulevard next to Freedom Tower, the Ellis Island for the Cuban refugee experience. And you're going to take it for nothing? And what you do with the first$15 million?

2:48Michael Popok:Now it turns out with new reporting that Donald Trump had one foundation not-for-profit where he took the$15 million check from ABC on the George Stephanopoulos E. Gene Carroll defamation resolution. And now it's gone along with the entity. He set up a new entity and siphoned off the money. Or maybe he didn't. Where's the$400 million? Why isn't Miami-Dade College getting any of that in return for this three-acre parcel of land for the Trump library? And what happened to the first 15 million? I got an idea. Let's cover it all right here on the Midas Touch Network. And on Legal AF, I'm Michael Popak reporting from Miami.

3:26Michael Popok:I know that property well. I've been to the Freedom Tower. It sits across from where the Miami Heat play. It's the last undeveloped parcel in that entire block. Parcels just like it, but probably not as nice because it has a water view. They go for$300 million to$400 million. Sure, the property appraiser said it's worth$67 million, but it's worth$400 million on the open market. Do you think Miami-Dade College has an endowment that can afford just giving away a piece of property that it could have got$400 million for? The educators, the student body, the alumni should be up in arms over this, and they are.

4:04Michael Popok:You can rarely get Miami-Dade County to rule against Donald Trump or vote against Donald Trump. 59 % said, what? They're selling it for nothing? They're giving it away for the Trump library. They shouldn't give it away, says the poll results, and they certainly shouldn't give it away for free. And when you've lost the Miami Republican MAGA community, you're dead. Things have turned. The worm has turned for Donald Trump. Let me break it down for you right here. Here's what happened. Miami-Dade County had a three acre, has a three acre parking lot for faculty and student parking next to Freedom Tower, which they also operate.

4:41Michael Popok:that sat there for years, could have been developed by them, could be part of their campus. And if they're going to sell it, they should get something for it, don't you think? But no, Ron DeSantis did a couple of things, some of which were covered and some of which weren't. First, we've got that he passed a law that said that local government like Miami-Dade County or Palm Beach County or local cities can't have a veto power, can't do voting about whether a presidential library is going to be placed in their community. He wanted it all to be at the state level. All right, so that happened. Then he slams in and forces Miami-Dade College to sell to the state and to a state trust the land secretly in the middle of the morning without really proper public notice at 8 a.m., taking it off of the live stream that is usually available to the public.

5:35Michael Popok:Because in Florida, if you can believe it, We've had government in the sunshine laws, public disclosure laws for the last 30 years. So if you're going to make a decision like the trustees of a college and you're going to sell off a piece of your property and you're a public entity, you got to give the public proper notice. You got to let them participate. You got to let you got to let them object. Instead, they said 8 a.m. discussion about transfer of property to the state. That's it. Not for the Trump library, not which property, not for free, nothing. 8 a.m., they turn off the cameras, click, they meet, and lo and behold, they vote to transfer it to the state.

6:17Michael Popok:Minutes later, the state cabinet, led by Governor DeSantis, votes to give it. Give it. Zero dollars to Donald Trump. and it was zero dollars out from the Miami Dade College. You'd think there'd be a lawsuit over this. And there is. There's been a lawsuit filed for a temporary restraining order under a violation of the Florida Sunshine Law, Law on the Sunshine, Government on the Sunshine. And Judge Mabel Ruiz, a judge in the 11th Circuit where I practice, she issued the temporary restraining order. The lawyers who brought that case with the plaintiff being Marvin Dunn, an African-American historian who's a Democrat, who sued, you need a plaintiff.

7:03Michael Popok:Those lawyers at Rivero Mestri are coming on Legal AF to meet with me this week and talk about that case and why they brought it. While I have them, I'm going to talk about some other cases I'd like to see filed, like about the ballroom that's being built with public money, apparently, on the White House, a public piece of property to make it look like Mar-a-Lago. And what about the triumphal arch that Donald Trump wants to build where he declared out loud that it's for himself? We'll talk about all those things. Catch us on Legal AF YouTube this week for that interview. I'm officially obsessed.

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9:07Michael Popok:See, Donald Trump doesn't give a crap about universities. He goes, oh, I want to change Harvard. I want to change Cornell. I want all these universities to come on bended knee and beg me for money, and I'll give it to them if they get rid of and let me control their academics and their student body. Here's a school in the middle of red, red, ruby red Republican Miami-Dade County, at least this part of it. and what does he do with it? He steals from them. He says, I'll take the 400. Now let's turn to the 15 million that's missing. As long as we're on the latest scandal. Pardon me. So here's the 15 million.

9:46Michael Popok:A few months ago, somebody opened up a foundation, a not-for-profit foundation in Florida. Okay? Called it like the Donald J. Trump Library Foundation or something like that. formed an LLC, a limited liability company as well in Florida, took in the$15 million when ABC decided back before Jimmy Kimmel that they were going to keep bending the knee and puckering up for Donald Trump and paying him tribute because George Stephanopoulos, when interviewing E. Jean Carroll, who's holding$100 million in judgments that says she's a sexual abuse survivor of Donald Trump, they said he used the word rape.

10:25Michael Popok:You were raped by Donald Trump. oh Donald Trump I wasn't I wasn't a rapist I was a judge to be a sex abuser like that matters like if you're at a cocktail party and somebody points a finger at you and says you were a rapist you say no I'm not I'm a sex abuser I still think you're going to be shown the door if you know what I mean you're still going to be ostracized so he didn't like that word and ABC's all you know we got so many problems with the Trump administration what are we going to do banging their heads we need our license we don't want the FCC up our ass we're going to pay the 15 million it'll go to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation.

10:57Michael Popok:It's like the equivalent of Stephanopoulos' salary. Where'd it go? That got dissolved. It's now inactive. And a new one popped up. The Donald Trump Presidential Foundation, headed by Eric Trump and Tiffany Trump and Tiffany Trump's new husband, Boulis, whose father is running around as some sort of foreign emissary for Donald Trump, along with Steve Witkoff. It's all crazy. It's all nuts. It's all a fraud. Remember those golden days when Donald Trump used to complain in MAGA about Hunter Biden getting one board seat in Ukraine with Burisma Oil? Oh, my God, he's trading on the Biden name. Oh, Joe Biden had a phone call.

11:39Michael Popok:He talked about the weather. Oh, they're trading on the presidency. Look what's going on here. Where's the 15 million? Where did it go? Where's the records related to it? and stop stealing from Miami-Dade College, which used to be Miami-Dade Community College, and it's$400 million. Now, the TRO is only going to last until they re-notice that hearing. I'm going to get the lawyers on. I'm going to talk about what's going to happen next and how they're going to stop it because they got to stop it. I mean, that community should be up in arms about this. And this is the location for the Trump Presidential Library.

12:12Michael Popok:A guy's never read a book. He's ghostwritten all of his books. He barely reads. he's barely literate why does he need a library he should just go to the local public library and just you know we'll give him a wooden bookshelf he can go put his books there and his papers there and what's going to be in the i'll end it on this what's going to be in the presidential library he's burning and trashing all his presidential presidential records he was notorious in the first administration for ripping them up and and and shredding them and putting them in the fireplace eating them and shoving them down the toilet.

12:49Michael Popok:What's left? He uses insecure platforms like WhatsApp and Signal and direct messages. What's going to be in this library? His social media accounts? I don't really get it. But we'll continue to follow what happens next. Now, this new scandal here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. Come over to Legal AF Substack, where I post all these injunctions and all of that, and come over to Legal AF YouTube, where I'm going to be interviewing the lawyers, Andres Rivero and George Mestre, and this lawsuit this week on Legal AF YouTube. Until my next report, I'm Michael Popak. Can't get your fill of Legal AF?

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